By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday opposed a bid by families of people killed in two Boeing Co 737 MAX crashes asking a judge to declare that the government violated their legal rights when it reached a $2.5 billion settlement with the plane maker last year to resolve a criminal charge. Despite opposing the families’ request, the department said in a court filing that “the government apologizes for not meeting and conferring with these crash victims’ beneficiaries before entering into” the deferred prosecution agreement – a type of corporate plea d…